Howdy all. I'm youth advocate and assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working in the School of Information Sciences (iSchool). I examine the ways young people interact with technology and what those practices mean for their engagement with information. I've worked with youth, including children, teens, and early adults, for more than 15 years, and am excited to bring that experience to bear on my research and teaching at Illinois. I was recently awarded a generous Early Career Development Grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to research the best ways to connect teens to the original research process and incorporate youth perspectives into research about teen technology practices.
I study information science from a socio-technical perspective, deeply informed by my background as a teen services librarian. In 2015, I completed my PhD at Drexel University in the College of Computing and Informatics. At Drexel, in addition to my own research, I worked with the Youth Online Research Group and the Social Computing Research Group. My dissertation focused on teens' everyday life technology use. My doctoral research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program*, as well as the Young Adult Library Services Association. Denise E. Agosto and Andrea Forte were my dissertation co-advisors, and my committee included Kristene Unsworth, Urs Gasser (Harvard University), and Sean P. Goggins (University of Missouri). In the past, I also had the great opportunity to work as an intern at the Youth and Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Thanks for visiting, and feel free to get in touch!
*Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
I study information science from a socio-technical perspective, deeply informed by my background as a teen services librarian. In 2015, I completed my PhD at Drexel University in the College of Computing and Informatics. At Drexel, in addition to my own research, I worked with the Youth Online Research Group and the Social Computing Research Group. My dissertation focused on teens' everyday life technology use. My doctoral research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program*, as well as the Young Adult Library Services Association. Denise E. Agosto and Andrea Forte were my dissertation co-advisors, and my committee included Kristene Unsworth, Urs Gasser (Harvard University), and Sean P. Goggins (University of Missouri). In the past, I also had the great opportunity to work as an intern at the Youth and Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Thanks for visiting, and feel free to get in touch!
*Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
